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A41955	A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. ; whereunto are annexed the testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related.	Greatrakes, Valentine, 1629-1683.; Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.	1666 (1666)	Wing G1789; ESTC R6820	52,956	98

I did use to bleed every day or every other day at least which bleeding I am very little troubled with This is that Sir which I affirm to be true who am Your humble Servant John Doe May 9. 1666. Sir Abraham Cullen's Mr. Rushout's and Captain Owen's Testimonies WE do certifie in behal● of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's that we saw a great Cure wrought by him upon the body of one William Jones inhabiting in the Parish of Mortlack where we also reside he having been very much bruised by reason whereof he was in great danger of his life but by the prevalency of Mr. Greatrak's stroking and the blessing of God thereon was perfectly removed and drove out at his toes after many removals from place to place the said Jones continues in perfect health it being three weeks since the said person was cured and this we affirm under our hands this 9. day of April 1666. Abraham Cullen Bar. William Rushout John Owen Sir Abraham Cullen's Mr. Rushout's and Captain Owen's Testimony WE doe further certifie that we heard Dorothy Wardant affirm that she was for twelve years last past very much troubled with a great pain in her side as also a violent pain in her head she likewise had at the same time an Ague that held her about three weeks all which Mr. Valentine Greatrak's his stroking of her cured and from that time has not felt any of her former infirmities it being 3 weeks since she was stroked which caused such violent motions when the pains flew from place to place that the raged Dorothy swounded away Given under our hands April 9. 1666 Abraham Cullen Bar. William Rushout John Owen Edwin Brewns Dr. Wilkin's and Mr. Sankey's Certificate I Do hereby certifie whom it may concern that I have been present at the stroking of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's on the 17. 19. and 24. dayes of this present April 1666. At each of which times I found several persons about him who professed to have received great benefit by his hand both as to the cure of swelling Ulcers Epilepsies driving away of pains c. And I my self did at each of these times see several cures wrought by him which to me did seem very strange and extraordinary As particularly that which was performed on the 17. day on a woman about 30 years of age who according to her own relation had some weeks before been cured by Mr. Greatrak's of the falling-sickness and did now come to him to be stroked for a pain in her head upon his putting of his hand on her forehead she said that her pain did forthwith remove to her shoulders upon the laying of his hand on the Cloths of her shoulder she said it slipped into her arm and so at another move into her hand from whence being by his touch driven into her fingers which thereupon grew cold and stiff I took her fingers between my hands endeavouring by friction to recover them to some warmth and limberness and having continued this friction for some while I let her hand goe and would have perswaded her that she was cured but she replyed that the pain still continued upon her to which Mr. Greatrak's added that the upper joints of her fingers into which he had driven the cause of her pain were dead and that if she were wounded in them she would neither feel it nor would any blood come for the tryal of which having first several times pinched the pulp of her fingers betwixt my nails with great violence I did several times thrust in a pin neer the bone but the woman was not sensible of either neither did any blood come but upon two or three slight strokes of his hand she professed to be eased of her pain and her fingers to be restored to their wonted temper and then being but gently pricked with a pin she was sensible of it and the blood followed upon it This I can truly and do willingly testifie John Wilkins D. D. What is here certified by that worthy Doctor Wilkins I was present at it and as carefully as I could observed the same things and do therefore subscribe the same Testimony C. Sankey Dr. Whichcot's Certificate SIR WHereas you desire some account of Mr. Greatrak's I make this return I have seen and been present at Aulcest●r and Ragly in Warwick-shire and since in London when and where Mr. Valentine Greatrak's hath relieved and restored very many persons miserably afflicted with several distempers particularly the Evil the Falling-sickness Convulsions Palsey Sores and Ulcers Aches and Pains Deafness Dimness of sight Lameness and Feebleness of limbs and other great Evils so as that the parties afflicted have freely and abundantly expressed and declared that they found themselves much better than they were before eased of their aches and pains and restored to the use of their limbs and senses whereas they had been disabled or deprived for many years before I have been present when sundry persons thus helped and relieved have with an abundance of joy and chearfulness given God thanks for the great benefit they had received by means of Mr. Greatrak's I have been in company of persons of good understanding and credit who have of their own accord declared and testified that they themselves have been eye-witnesses of the like good effects 'T is true he doth not cure such in whom Nature is spent or where the parts or principles of nature altogether are defective to whom at first coming to him he doth commonly declare that he cannot help them Some others at the first or second application to him he doth not help who afterwards are restored at their oftner coming to him And as concerning the way of his curing maladies I have very diligently observed him but did never perceive him to use any form of words nor saw him do any thing in my judgment liable to any suspicion of any ill art or device And for his conversation I have been much in his company for the time of his being in England and I never saw any ill behaviour or unseemly carriage in him nor any intemperance disorder or excess I have great cause from mine own observation to esteem him a sober and well-governed person affable civil and courteous in his converse and for his temper in Religion he is not so far as I could discern of any fond perswasion or vain conceit in matter of Religion but a devout acknowledger of God and of Jesus Christ in whose name alone and by whose power he professeth upon all occasions to act He declares himself a Protestant and an hearty lover of the Reformed Religion and professeth to worship God according of the Rules and Principles therof and to live in the obedience of and communion with the Church of England I believe him to be of an unexceptionable and unblamable conversation through the experience I have had of him And for my own particular he hath been to me an happy instrument of God to relieve and ease me of a

I could mine and with great acclamations gave thanks to God I forbear to acquaint you with any more for if I should relate all I have seen several sheets would not contain it I have declared what I was an Eye-witness too but whether the persons that have received that immediate relief continue well I cannot inform you at present but perhaps hereafter I may tell you my thoughts why many as it is reported relapse Having oft had the opportunity of being in his company with some persons of no ordinary quality I am the better able to give a Character of him I find him to be a person of a brave gentile humour of a free carriage and disposition one as being not over-precise to be termed a Zelot so not of so large a latitude as to deserve that of a debauched person which some in the world have undeservedly given him for I have dined several times where he hath been and I never observed other but great moderation both as to eating and drinking nor did I ever hear him swear or see him passionate although cause sufficient hath been given in my hearing to move a person not indued with a more than ordinary patience I hope Dear Friend you are so assured of my reality that nothing could induce me to this were I not so great an Assertor and Vindicator of Truth let it tend never so much to my disadvantage I take leave and subscribe SIR Your affectionate real Friend c. Jer. Astel March 10. 1666. A Postscript to Mr. Boyle's Letter SIR NOt knowing whether I may have the happiness to see you again before I return for Ireland I thought fit to let you know That I have left the Original Testimonials in the hands of Mr. Starkey the Stationer to be delivered unto you that you may see others that are any wise scrupulous may be satisfied that the Printed Certificates are verbatim the same with them For your many and great Civilities I heartily thank you and do desire you to give my humble service to those Honourable Gentlemen of Gresham Colledge who were pleased to afford me the Honour of their Company at Lincolns-Inn-fields and elsewhere I know both your self and they have so much Candour Nobleness and Ingenuity as not to Condemne or Censure me as others have done for that Liberty and Freedom in my Carriage void of Offence I hope which I use having not been acquainted with that severe and morose manner of Converse unto which some tye up themselves I thank God I carry about me an open clear and harmless Breast free from base Designs Hypocrisie or Fraud so that I need not a cover pretence or colour and I hope the Divine Goodness will in great mercy over-look my Failings and Imperfections and of his own Grace regard the simplicity and integrity of my heart which rejoyceth in nothing more than in doing of good and imploying my self as God shall enable me in helping persons in misery towards whom I find in my self tenderness of mind a hearty compassion and a ready disposition to try the utmost of my Endeavours for their ease and relief in which service as I have my recompence so in the good effects of it my satisfaction judging it better than my being in the world to be instrumental for good and to be serviceable to mankind I shall add no more but my hearty Prayers for your eternal happiness who am faithfully devoted Most Honoured and Worthy Sir Your most affectionate and humble servant Valentine Greatrak's May 5. 1666. FINIS